On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:42:02AM -0500, Tan, Lin wrote:
> Thank you so much for the response. :)> > I think a malicious driver (in kernel space) can still call these> functions to create a device node, which is dangerous. If this is not> possible, then there is no security hole.

I don't see how this is possible, do you?

Remember, if you have a malicious driver in kernel space, you can do
whatever you want to do, no need to try to plod through the symbol table
to lookup a static symbol in a kernel module and call that, just create
the device node yourself with your own code :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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